Thomasine Shaw, next to BZA member Gemini Rorie: The proposed poultry market would have been too close to people, "endangering their health."
The Board of Zoning Appeals denied a proposed poultry market with on-site, on-demand chicken slaughtering on Tuesday night, following a stream of contentious public testimony that invoked concerns about Islamophobia, bird flu, and the wellbeing of the neighborhood.
Neighbor Radcliffe: "I want my meat in a package."
Your soon-to-be-beheaded dinner inside here?
“Which of these chickens would you like us to slaughter?”
Meat-eaters may have a chance to answer that question at a live poultry market on Kimberly Avenue, unless at least one Hill neighbor has a say in the matter.
The city’s non-cop crisis crew will now be on call for twice as many hours a day, remain reachable through the night, and respond directly to emergencies without police or fire intervening first.
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At the Greenwich Ave. C-Town, now a Key Food.
A Kimberly Square supermarket won its final needed city approval to construct a roughly 3,300 square foot addition — as part of an expansion project that will also see a larger parking lot and a knocked-down house.
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Hill North CMT Secretary Maxine Harris-Branham & Hill South CMT Chair Sarah McIver at Wednesday's joint meeting.
City-planned improvements to Kimberly Square.
Energized by the summer solstice sunshine on the longest day of the year, Hill neighbors brought a bit of good-natured heat and opposition to a preliminary city proposal to close off a section of Greenwich Avenue to make a little plaza or “public realm” — as part of a broader street-scape redo of Kimberly Square.
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Yezenia Lebron outside newly renamed Key Food at Ferry and Grand: Supermarket is "associated with this Latino community."
Yezenia Lebron succeeded in finding pork loin, bacalao, and Fiesta Campesina flower cookies at her go-to Grand Avenue grocery store — even as she struggled to get used to the supermarket’s new name above the door.
Drew Ramsey and Javon Hailey clear Kimberly Park's invasive vines.
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Dayton Death Row.
Five towering trees were sentenced to death on a crowded west side street. Meanwhile, across town, stewards whacked at vines in a reclaimed park to enable other trees to survive and thrive.
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At the Greenwich Ave. C-Town: More aisles, coming soon?
A Kimberly Square supermarket is looking to stock more shelves and serve more shoppers — by first paving more parking spaces and later tearing down a two-family home.
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Nova and Zora Zanders at Sunday's Hill holiday fest.
Eight-year-old Nova and her three-year-old sister Zora shared big smiles as they posed for a photo on Santa’s lap. When St. Nick asked Nova what she wants for Christmas this year, she surprised him. She said she didn’t care about what to ask for.
“I just want to be grateful no matter what I get.”
Twenty-seven community gardens and three nature preserves will get new soil, tools, hoop houses, raised beds, and other improvements thanks to an infusion of state cash.
Carlos Rodriguez in front of the newly rezoned Greenwich Avenue lot.
His Long Wharf food truck, Tacos La Patrona.
Taco truck owner Carlos Rodriguez is further along the way to converting a vacant city-owned lot into a commercial kitchen with apartments on top after clearing a legislative hurdle.
Balmer Gonzalez with wife Maria Arce and son David.
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Balmer Gonzalez’s daughter-in-law after the paintball shooting.
Balmer Gonzalez was closing up shop at his Colombian restaurant in the Hill when a group of strangers rolled down their car window and sprayed him and his family with bullets.
So Gonzalez pulled a handgun from his back pocket and returned fire. And ended up arrested.
New Haven Ward 9 Committee Co-Chair Sarah Locke and DTC Chair Vinnie Mauro.
The four Democratic mayoral candidates honed their campaign stump speeches — with lists of accomplishments, idealistic visions for the future, critiques of the status quo, and even some stand-up comedy — as they sought to win the local party’s endorsement.
Nonprofits too are increasing the number of units they own in the area.
Meanwhile the city is poised to make a push to create more affordable housing, with a new proposal to create an affordable housing commission.
In the face of all these changes, some of the last Hill South homeowners have banded together to resist new real estate pressures and to have more of a say in how their neighborhood changes.
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Officer John Caron and Sgt. Brendan Canning.
The cops put the kibosh on a string of robberies of pizza deliverers in the Hill South neighborhood, where police believe a tech-savvy 15 year-old was using a scrambled phone number app he had downloaded in order to lure his pie-and-cash bearing victims.
Meanwhile, officers got word of a new problem — open gambling, smoking, and dealing a few blocks farther along on Greenwich Avenue at Galvin Park.
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Marcus Rivera (center) in court.
According to a newly released police report, the officer who exchanged shots with a fleeing suspect in the Hill in January fired the first bullet — after the suspect responded to orders to stop and raise his hands by pointing a gun at the officer instead.
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Marcus Rivera with Asst. Public Defender Kelly Billings in court this week.
Detectives are pouring through over 600 pages of medical records as they seek to prove that a chainlink fence — rather than a large, armed, unidentified assailant — was the source of a hand injury on a man accused of shooting at city police.
State police at scene of Greenwich Avenue shooting.
A newly available state report about an “officer-involved shooting” reveals that last week wasn’t the first time a 22-year-old city man led cops on a chase.
When they caught him this time in Kimberly Square, he broke free. He fired at least one shot; officers fired numerous bullets. He fled.
When cops found him again, he had shed his jacket and pants — and claimed to be a robbery victim. A telltale tattoo gave him away.
Officers grabbed a fleeing man who had allegedly just shot at a cop. Then they kept him talking and applied first aid until medics could arrive on the scene.
